Sentences with phrase «drivers championship over»

Not exact matches

Heading into the summer break he's 33 points off of championship leader Vettel but has been the highest - scoring driver over the past five Grands Prix, and has put in a number of impressive drives.

Over the next 10 weeks, 16 drivers will vie for the Monster Energy Cup Series championship.

The intent was to bring the performance level of the three manufacturers closer inline where one doesn't hold an overwhelming superiority like Toyota had last season where its drivers combined to win 16 of 36 races and saw Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch finish 1 - 2 in the championship and each lead over 2,000 laps.

Although he's acknowledged as one of the best drivers in F1, It's been over 11 years (yes, really) since Alonso won a championship, and getting on for five years since he's even won a race.

That would be the first of three wins for Wilson that season, which along with seven other podiums was enough to give him the championship by a record margin over runner - up and future fellow F1 driver, Mark Webber.

The 2017 season had been over for about 30 minutes last month when Brad Keselowski, one of title eligibles who fell short of beating Martin Truex Jr. in the championship finale, rationale explained why the 2018 Monster Energy Cup Series season presented significant hurdles to himself and other Ford - powered drivers.

There's no doubt that IndyCar (and other American series) has plenty of talented drivers, but the modern F1 way is for teams to recruit young drivers to their junior programmes and prepare them for F1 over a number of years, rather than simply plucking good drivers from other championships as occasionally used to be the case.

Few will forget Williams» impact on the British Touring Car Championship in the 1990s — when it took over Renault's team in 1995, it turned the already competitive Laguna into a championship winner, resulting in driver and manufacturer titles in 1997.

Chevrolet and Corvette Racing lead Aston Martin Racing by 14 points (151 - 137) in the GT1 manufacturers and team championships, while Gavin and Olivier Beretta have an 18 - point advantage over Ron Fellows, O'Connell and Aston Martin driver Tomas Enge in the drivers championship.

A third - place finish by Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta in Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta on Sept. 30 gave the pair an 11 - point lead (157 - 146) over Aston Martin driver Tomas Enge in the drivers championship with one race remaining.

Ron Fellows and Johnny O'Connell have a 33 - point lead in the ALMS drivers» championship over fellow Corvette drivers Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta.

He has also been an accomplished late model stock race car driver for over 20 years and has earned three track championships, winning over 250 events.

The battle for the GT1 drivers championship is still being waged, with Johnny O'Connell and Jan Magnussen holding a 23 - point lead over Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta with 55 points available in the final two races.

The pair reclaimed the lead in the driver standings with a.283 - second victory over the No. 45 Porsche of Joerg Bergmeister and Patrick Long, and extended Chevrolet's lead in the GT manufacturer championship.

Gavin and Milner now unofficially lead the GT driver championship by 28 points over teammates Magnussen and Milner (124 - 96).

Going into the Mid-Ohio round, O'Connell and Magnussen have a slim 12 - point lead (106 - 94) over Gavin and Beretta in the race for the GT1 drivers championship.

With solid results acquired over the weekend by drivers Sandberg, Plumb and Ziegler, ANSA Motorsports bridged the gap with the team leading the championship and went from third to second, now only 6 points behind the team - championship leader.

The pair leads the drivers» championship by 13 points — 44 remain over the final two rounds.

For the first invitational event; you have a choice between an overtake challenge at a short circuit variation of Silverstone were you will be driving Damon Hill's 1996 world driver's championship winning Williams with an objective of overtaking a specific quantity of cars before time expires from a rolling start, while the alternative is to attempt to overtake slower cars than Fernando Alonso's 2006 world driver's championship winning Renault who have a head start over you before completing the allocated amount of laps at a short circuit variation of Suzuka.

A noticeable improvement in voice - overs includes a variety of facts and analysis projected through each track's tannoy system such as the redesigned cars for the 2017 season, who may thrive in wet weather conditions and who to look out for in the world driver's and constructor's championships which certainly builds the atmosphere of a big race weekend vibe.